TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calabresi,Guido
TI  - A Common Law for the Age of Statutes
T2  - Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures
SN  - 9780674029156
AV  - KF425 
U1  - 348.73/22 
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Statutes-United States
KW  - Common law-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- I Choking on Statutes -- II The Flight to the Constitution and to Equal Protection Clauses -- III The Passive Virtues -- IV Interpretation -- V The New Deal Response: Administrative Agencies -- VI Legislative Responses -- VII Structural Responses -- VIII A New Approach: Antecedents and Roots -- IX The Doctrine: A Question of Legitimacy -- X The Doctrine: Limits and Guidelines -- XI The Doctrine: Techniques and Feasibility -- XII The Role of Courts in an Age of Statutes -- XIII The Dangers of the Doctrine -- XIV The Uses and Abuses of Subterfuge -- XV The Choice for Candor -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Table of Cases -- Index
N2  - The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country to seriously consider returning to a traditional American judicial-legislative balance in which courts enlarge the common law and decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised
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